Area Studies

Saturday March 13, 2010 - 9am-7:30pm
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
14th Floor of Robarts Library, room RL14087

Full details about the conference can be found here: http://individual.utoronto.ca/tq_87/easgsu/index.html

"It is only once it is formulated, named in the presence of the other, that desire appears in the full sense of the term." - Jacques Lacan

THE ASIAN DIASPORA CONFERENCE: ASIA & BEYOND
One of the BIGGEST conference events of the year on Asia

Date: Saturday 6th March 2010
Time: 9:30am - 4:00pm
Location: 108N, 208N, Munk Centre for International Studies, 1
Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario

LEARN, CHALLENGE, NETWORK.
MULTICULTURALISM. THE MEANING OF 'CANADIAN ASIAN'.

We want to give a chance for high profile leaders, academics, and
inspirational figures to contribute their insights and knowledge to
the academic community, general public and the new generation of
Asian diaspora. Our goal is to give a forum for them to share their
experiences and struggles, as well as academic or personal insights
towards issues related to the Asians living in Canada and beyond.

The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library will host a lecture about Li Qingzhao, the prominent female poet of Song Dynasty, entitled "Li Qingzhao / 李清照: The Eminent Scholar and Her Works" on Thursday, March 4.

Please refer to the attached poster for more details. The lecture is free and open to all, but pre-registration is needed because of a limited number of seats. Please contact Lucy (lucy.gan@utoronto.ca, or 416-978-1025 ) to reserve a seat or request further information about the event.

February 26-28, 2010

The Asian Institute is pleased to offer Toronto-based readers invitations to tickets. Please contact Rhema Kang.  

The schedule is as follows:

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26

6:30 OPENING NIGHT WELCOME

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

"Bentu: Taiwan Cinema's Sentiments and Marketplace" Professor Emilie Yueh-Yu Yeh (Department of Cinema-Television and Director , David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University)

GALA SCREENING

Tears (2009) | Directed by Cheng Wen-Tang | 111 min.

9:00 - 12:00 GALA PARTY (Innis Café)

The East Asian Library at the University of Pittsburgh is pleased to announce travel grants for the 2010 calendar year. The purpose of these grants is to support scholars who wish to do research at the East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh. The grants are sponsored by the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh. They are available at the range of $250-$500 for each candidate depending on the need and the location of the individual. Special consideration will be given to those researchers in southwestern Pennsylvania and the nearby regions with no major East Asian collections, and without receiving such grants previously.

The application deadline is March 20, 2010. Grants will be awarded by March 31, 2010. The awards must be used before July 15, 2010.

On Wednesday February 17, the Fourth Day of the Year of Tiger, the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library is hosting a conference on "Home Sweet Home: Return Migration in Hong Kong and its Implications" and a book launch of "Hong Kong Movers and Stayers: Narratives of Family Migration".

DATE AND TIME
Wed Feb 17, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

LOCATION
Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto Libraries, 8th floor, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street

SCHEDLUE
9:30 – 10:30 Opening

10:30- 11:00 Conceptual and Methodological Issues
“Conceptual and Measurements Issues of Return Migration” Eric Fong (Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto)

11:00-11:30 Return Migration- Hong Kong Perspective (1)

The Asian Institute’s Chu programme organised a field school delegation to Taiwan in December 2009. The students travelled to Taiwan for a week, during which time they met with and interviewed officials in government (including Taiwan’s former Premier), leaders in industry and academia, as well as social movement / NGO activists. The students also prepared papers in advance of their trip, which they presented “seminar style” to the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the National Taiwan University and National Chengchi University.

In short, these students experienced a truly global moment. The trip was such a great success that the field school will be continued in the coming years.

Tea as Beverage and Ritual Offering in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Monasteries

James A. Benn
Associate Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions
McMaster University

Friday, January 29
2:30 pm
Purple Lounge, Department of East Asian Studies
Robarts Library 14th Floor